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| 1983 |
| | | Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino is assassinated at Manila International Airport | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Sikh rebels, demanding an independent Punjab, seize the Golden Temple in Amritsar | |
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| 1984 |
| | | The CIA covertly arranges for mines to be laid in Nicaragua's harbours | |
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| 1984 |
| | | Indira Gandhi is assassinated in Delhi by members of her Sikh bodyguard, in retaliation for the desecration of the Golden Temple | |
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| 1985 |
| | | French agents blow up Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour | |
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| 1986 |
| | | Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is killed in a Stockholm street in an unsolved murder | |
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| 1987 |
| | | Hamas (acronym in Arabic for 'Movement for Islamic Resistance') is founded in the occupied territories to lead armed resistance against Israel | |
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| 1988 |
| | | Yasser Arafat, leader of the PLO, declares that the organization renounces 'terrorism in all its forms' | |
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| c. 1988 |
| | | Osama bin Laden's involvement in the fight against Soviet forces in Afghanistan leads to his development of al-Qaeda | |
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| 1988 |
| | | A terrorist bomb brings down flight Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland | |
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